ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 4 March 1927, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

e-o;r*rr»iENClNG TO-NIGHT. COMMENCING TO-MORROW. “THE BLIND' GODDESS”. AND AIR. R. TEELING O’HAGAN. A.n unusually fine screen drama is announced for showing lat the Opera House to-night and again to-morrow at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. “The B’ind Goddess” deals candidly with a them© that has for long cried out for an impartial recognition, the question, seemingly impertinent, of Blnur Justice v. Justice with her two eyes open and glancing in opposite directions. It grapple® fearlessly with this question and weaves a drama of sterling worth around it. The story is, of course, intensely dramatic, but as even the darkest lives are .sometimes shot with gleams of humour there is sufficient comedy in the picture to ensure an artistic ensemble. A very clever plot is ' the foundation of the story, which is on intricate and complicated as can be wished for. With remarkable cleverness the tangle is straightened out, and Justice is proved to he blind after all. Esther Ralston, Louise Dresser, Jack Holt and Ernest Torrence are the stars, been .specially • Mr R. o’Hagan, the renowned baritone, who has been .specially engaged for a two night season will make his first appearance in this town on Friday evening and will .sing “For you Alone’’ and “Had you but; Known. ' Reserves are obtainable at the Opera Ho use c o.n fe ctio nery.